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Re: Browsers and OS's
From: Harrold Ahole <madman () MYEASTSIDE COM>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 12:26:37 -0700
I've never had any such problem with Firefox. My update from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 worked that way just fine under Windows. It was the first time I'd see the icon appear automatically. I've manually done updates for extensions and those seemed to work fine. It is important to restart Firefox after the update to make sure you are running the new version. I've found it to be a good browser, though it has had trouble with missing buttons on Amazon and no doubt other IE-centric web sites. Harry Jeni Li wrote:
My experience with Firefox update notification has been pretty spotty too. It tells me updates are available when I've already applied the updates; it tries to download theme/plug-in updates and fails; it tosses up messages that an end user might find confusing. I prefer Firefox hands-down for every situation except those few obnoxious IE-only sites -- two words, AdBlock and RIP -- but if keeping it updated on non-technical end users' systems is the goal, not so much. Unless maybe you're in an environment where you can push out software updates using GPO or something.-----Original Message----- From: Jason Richardson [mailto:A00JER2 () WPO CSO NIU EDU] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 12:10 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Browsers and OS's That is incorrect, I see a message roll up from the bottom right hand side of the browser window notifying me that updates are available. Then I click on the red icon in the upper right hand corner to download and apply the updates. I am running the latest ver. (1.0.7) but it has done that for several versions now. --- Jason Richardson Manager, IT Security and Client Development Enterprise Systems Support Northern Illinois University
Current thread:
- Browsers and OS's Justin Sipher (Oct 04)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Browsers and OS's Stephen W. Bradley (Oct 04)
- Re: Browsers and OS's Louis Brooks (Oct 04)
- Re: Browsers and OS's Jason Richardson (Oct 04)
- Re: Browsers and OS's Louis Brooks (Oct 04)
- Re: Browsers and OS's Eric Brewer (Oct 04)
- Re: Browsers and OS's Joe St Sauver (Oct 04)
- Re: Browsers and OS's Justin Sipher (Oct 04)
- Re: Browsers and OS's Jason Richardson (Oct 04)
- Re: Browsers and OS's Jeni Li (Oct 04)
- Re: Browsers and OS's Harrold Ahole (Oct 04)
- Re: Browsers and OS's Valdis Kletnieks (Oct 04)
- Re: Browsers and OS's Jeff Giacobbe (Oct 04)
- Re: Browsers and OS's Shalla, Kevin (Oct 04)
- Re: Browsers and OS's Valdis Kletnieks (Oct 04)
- Re: Browsers and OS's Matt Kirchhoff (Oct 06)